"One especially melodramatic line uttered by Hanks drew prolonged laughter and some catcalls, and the audience continued to titter for much of the film's remainder"
Posted on 05/17/2006 7:19:19 AM PDT by Reaganesque
Quotes from early reviews of "The DaVinci Code" at Cannes:
"CANNES, France - "The Da Vinci Code" drew lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs Tuesday from arguably the world's toughest movie crowd: critics at the Cannes Film Festival."
"One especially melodramatic line uttered by Hanks drew prolonged laughter and some catcalls, and the audience continued to titter for much of the film's remainder.
Some people walked out during the movie's closing minutes, though there were fewer departures than many Cannes movies provoke among harsh critics. When the credits rolled, there were a few whistles and hisses, and there was none of the scattered applause even bad movies sometimes receive at Cannes."
Yahoo News
"A pulpy page-turner in its original incarnation as a huge international bestseller has become a stodgy, grim thing in the exceedingly literal-minded film version of "The Da Vinci Code." Tackling head-on novelist Dan Brown's controversy-stirring thriller hinging on a subversively revisionist view of Jesus Christ's life, director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have conspired to drain any sense of fun out of the melodrama, leaving expectant audiences with an oppressively talky film that isn't exactly dull, but comes as close to it as one could imagine with such provocative material; result is perhaps the best thing the project's critics could have hoped for. Enormous public anticipation worldwide will result in explosive B.O. at the start in near-simultaneous release in most international territories, beginning May 17 in some countries -- day-and-date with the official Cannes opening-night preem -- and May 19 in the U.S. and elsewhere."
Variety
" Several whistles instead of applause were all that greeted the end of Ron Howard's 125-million-dollar film, and worse than that, the 2,000-strong audience even burst out laughing at the movie's key moment.
"I didn't like it very much. I thought it was almost as bad as the book. Tom Hanks was a zombie, thank goodness for Ian McKellen. It was overplayed, there was too much music and it was much too grandiose," said Peter Brunette, critic for the US daily The Boston Globe. '
Breitbart.com
"Bottom line: A jumble of historical myth, religious symbology and international thriller-action makes for an unwieldy, bloated melodrama."
The Hollywood Reporter.com
Keep praying that this will be a complete flop.
Especially when the lead in this movie hit his acting stride with Peter Scolari in this show.
Godless Hollywood are gluttons for punishment.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Warning: Films about racial conflict, gay cowboys, Israeli assassins and effete New York intellectuals may be hazardous to your Oscar ratings, Nielsen Media Research figures revealed on Monday.
Sunday's Academy Awards telecast averaged 38.8 million viewers, down nearly 8 percent from last year.
Or Prince Charles. Should we get a pool going?
X-Men 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will beg to differ I am sure...
What does that have to do with "DaVinci Code?"
How's about someone who has seen it let us in on the secret so we can post it. Should be interesting.
In 6 weeks this will all be over and you'll be able to get this tripe for a couple of bucks from the local video store.
It'll be all over the Web by Saturday morning - make your guesses NOW! I dibs Chuck.
Ishtar
For whatever reason, NBC and MSNBC have been hyping this film for a while. Maybe other stations also.
That's still too much - a year from now, when I'm doing laundry on a rainy Saturday afternoon, I'll tune it in to laugh at the way its pretentiousness was followed by its tanking.
Don't change the subject.
Don't think so. For this film to be a smash it requires massive amounts of older adults (35+) to get out to the theater, which has not been happening at all lately.
Bad reviews will hurt it immensely, especially ones that say it's overlong and boring. We ALL have better things to do than to pay $10 to be bored off our asses for 2 1/2 hours.
That's funny. It reminds me of a story I read about Kevin Costner's (yet another baseball movie) For Love of the Game. There was a scene where he got caught cheating by his movie love interest (Kelly Preston). Originally, he was showing full frontal nudity while he chased after her. The test audience, apparently unimpressed, laughed out loud. The scene was eventually edited to exclude the frontal view.
Mais non! Les mordus du cinéma à Cannes sont les snobs de film plus grandes du monde. Ils ont un mépris pour tout américain, et d'un air suffisant le snicker à ce morceau de barbarie américaine.
"One especially melodramatic line uttered by Hanks drew prolonged laughter and some catcalls, and the audience continued to titter for much of the film's remainder"
I agree - These critics are the same ones who turn their noses up at EVERY popular movie.
The Shining.
My Mom's a senior
citizen and even she
is waiting for that!
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